Brazil Senate moves forward with impeachment process

BRASILIA, May 9 (Reuters) - Brazil's Senate pressed ahead
with the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff on
Monday, despite a decision by the lower house's interim speaker
to annul it earlier in the day.

The head of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, said he had
rejected the lower house interim speaker's decision and that a
vote in the upper house on whether to put Rousseff on trial
would continue as scheduled.

The Senate is expected to vote this week on whether it will
try Rousseff for breaking budgetary laws. If it decides in
favour of doing so, Rousseff will immediately be suspended for
up to six months as the trial proceeds.
(Reporting by Anthony Boadle and Brad Brooks; Editing by Daniel
Flynn)